CVE-2018-16402
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-09-03 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:24
Severity ?
Summary
libelf/elf_end.c in elfutils 0.173 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (double free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because it tries to decompress twice.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00052.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2197Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00030.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23528Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4012-1/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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